"tipper" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɪpɚ/ [General-American], /ˈtɪpə(ɹ)/ [UK] Audio: En-au-tipper.ogg Forms: tippers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ) Etymology: From tip + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|tip|er}} tip + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} tipper (plural tippers)
  1. Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.
    Sense id: en-tipper-en-noun-e7gTCTI4
  2. (slang) A small moustache. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Moustaches
    Sense id: en-tipper-en-noun-gpsNLcUI Disambiguation of Moustaches: 1 44 15 1 6 14 1 18
  3. (UK) A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck, tipper lorry, or dump truck. Tags: UK Categories (topical): Construction vehicles Synonyms (goods vehicle): dump truck, dumper truck, tipper truck, tip truck
    Sense id: en-tipper-en-noun-8HH5WaFg Disambiguation of Construction vehicles: 1 5 56 2 6 13 1 16 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 3 27 2 9 24 2 32 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 3 1 25 2 9 26 2 31 Disambiguation of 'goods vehicle': 3 1 55 28 3 3 7
  4. A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
    Sense id: en-tipper-en-noun-LlLZ6Lix
  5. One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster. Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-tipper-en-noun-D8YuwEfU Disambiguation of People: 18 25 2 0 35 1 16 3
  6. (also in plural form) A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of livestock; a horn tipper.
    Sense id: en-tipper-en-noun-JFaYeHGm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er, Pages with 2 entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 3 27 2 9 24 2 32 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 8 2 30 6 11 38 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 3 1 25 2 9 26 2 31
  7. A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter).
    Sense id: en-tipper-en-noun-Qfgq1jS8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bin tipper, fly-tipper, flytipper, Tipper and See-Saw Time Related terms: tipping, dumpcart, dumper, tumbril
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈtɪpɚ/ [General-American], /ˈtɪpə(ɹ)/ [UK] Audio: En-au-tipper.ogg
Rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ) Etymology: So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper. Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} tipper
  1. A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well. Categories (topical): Beer
    Sense id: en-tipper-en-noun-YsToarPC Disambiguation of Beer: 2 10 22 2 12 21 2 29 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 3 27 2 9 24 2 32 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 3 1 25 2 9 26 2 31 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 1 26 1 10 26 1 33
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.